I found Howard Rotberg's story via Irons in the Fire.
So a jooooo dares to have a book about how Canada is becoming tolerant of harassment of jooooos. And some Peaceful Members of the Religion of Peace" show up to a lecture about the book and shout the author down, including the phrase "A f*cking Jew" just in case you were wondering about the caliber of intellect the protesters had.
Now the author is the racist, the protesters are the victim and Canada is apparently turning into a Jew-hating pile of burning sh*t.
Sorry about the language folks, but this really takes the cake. Christians, pray for our neighbors to the North, and for our country as well. Remember that all that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to stand by and do (and say) nothing.
May God help us all.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
I Was Government Educated, Too.
The problem with me was, I didn't get diseducated by it.
The system has, in effect, failed me horribly
I read lots when I was a kid. Science fiction, news, history, action, mystery/detective stuff. Not just comic books (too broke for those), books (free from the liebury). Plus textbooks. I couldn't tell you what any of the textbooks said any more (except some poetry), but the stuff I see cropping up in news and high technology doesn't surprise me - I read about it in the fiction of many years ago. My grandfather even lent/gave me some science fiction from when HE was a youth.
God gave me a good mind as well, and an inclination to use it.
I never did see sports as worth enough of my time to spend hours everyday at them, although I'm probably better at riding bicycles off-road than you are. The point of doing just what some coach told me to do, sweating for it and hurting for it, after spending all day doing just what some "teacher" told me to do, I didn't see. I did see the worth in gathering knowledge. You know, like the proverb says? Yeah, it helps to know things.
Then you spent lots of money to train me in the same stuff I had been tinkering with for years, then I spent a few more years tinkering, being exposed to a wide variety of equipment and experiences.
All of this means that the limited education received from the government indoctrination centers (a.k.a. Public Schools) has been supplemented by actual thinking, and use of the imagination.
Get your kid's nose in a book. Try a different subject matter if he doesn't like it. They'll be better educated. Make it a classic. I am (very slowly) becoming a well-read person, filling in the huge gaps in my reading left by the public schooling system. If your child isn't being taught from the texts of someone a thousand years dead, their education is LACKING.
Also, get involved with their schooling. Homeschool them if you can afford it. It IS worth moving from your big house to a little apartment or working a second job to afford it. If you leave the education of your children to their 'public school' teachers, you will fail as a parent, and they will fail to realize the potential they have to be great people. Is it really worth it, to buy a new $6000 television in a couple years, and not pay for the curricula from a good homeschooling organization? Not in my house.
This is part of the reason I can't afford to go shooting as often as I would like. Priority: children and mortgage payments before new TV and cartridges.
That is all.
The system has, in effect, failed me horribly
I read lots when I was a kid. Science fiction, news, history, action, mystery/detective stuff. Not just comic books (too broke for those), books (free from the liebury). Plus textbooks. I couldn't tell you what any of the textbooks said any more (except some poetry), but the stuff I see cropping up in news and high technology doesn't surprise me - I read about it in the fiction of many years ago. My grandfather even lent/gave me some science fiction from when HE was a youth.
God gave me a good mind as well, and an inclination to use it.
I never did see sports as worth enough of my time to spend hours everyday at them, although I'm probably better at riding bicycles off-road than you are. The point of doing just what some coach told me to do, sweating for it and hurting for it, after spending all day doing just what some "teacher" told me to do, I didn't see. I did see the worth in gathering knowledge. You know, like the proverb says? Yeah, it helps to know things.
Then you spent lots of money to train me in the same stuff I had been tinkering with for years, then I spent a few more years tinkering, being exposed to a wide variety of equipment and experiences.
All of this means that the limited education received from the government indoctrination centers (a.k.a. Public Schools) has been supplemented by actual thinking, and use of the imagination.
Get your kid's nose in a book. Try a different subject matter if he doesn't like it. They'll be better educated. Make it a classic. I am (very slowly) becoming a well-read person, filling in the huge gaps in my reading left by the public schooling system. If your child isn't being taught from the texts of someone a thousand years dead, their education is LACKING.
Also, get involved with their schooling. Homeschool them if you can afford it. It IS worth moving from your big house to a little apartment or working a second job to afford it. If you leave the education of your children to their 'public school' teachers, you will fail as a parent, and they will fail to realize the potential they have to be great people. Is it really worth it, to buy a new $6000 television in a couple years, and not pay for the curricula from a good homeschooling organization? Not in my house.
This is part of the reason I can't afford to go shooting as often as I would like. Priority: children and mortgage payments before new TV and cartridges.
That is all.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
PETA kills animals
Peta Kills Animals
One of my co-workers said, yeah, when they can't place them.
Hold on there.
How about, yeah, when they are bout to drive out of your parking lot?
The killing vans help to account for <1% of all the animals they take in being adopted out. clickity
Reminds me of the persistent rumor of a peta-staged seal-clubbing for the camera.
Because, if you have good intentions, that's all that matters.
Right?
P.S., when PETA pays to firebomb a building where dogs were being skinned alive, for the record, I'm on their side.
"I love animals... because they taste so good"
One of my co-workers said, yeah, when they can't place them.
Hold on there.
How about, yeah, when they are bout to drive out of your parking lot?
The killing vans help to account for <1% of all the animals they take in being adopted out. clickity
Reminds me of the persistent rumor of a peta-staged seal-clubbing for the camera.
Because, if you have good intentions, that's all that matters.
Right?
P.S., when PETA pays to firebomb a building where dogs were being skinned alive, for the record, I'm on their side.
"I love animals... because they taste so good"
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Changin' My Earl
So last night I picked up a few quarts of Mobil 1 Synthetic 10W30, some Marvel Mystery Oil, and a timing belt for my car.
Got home and asked #2 if he wanted to help me change the oil in my car. Immediate affirmative response.
Yay! I must be doing something right!
Took the standard 1/2 hour or so, and that was with commentary and talking to the next door neighbor. #2 was more interested in comparing the smells of the oils and seeing their relative colors than being under the hot engine, but still. My son is starting to WANT to help me work on my cars! Woohoo!
Yes, before you ask, I did change the filter, with a Purolator Pure One that I had on hand already. The interval was just a hair over 6,000 miles.
Got home and asked #2 if he wanted to help me change the oil in my car. Immediate affirmative response.
Yay! I must be doing something right!
Took the standard 1/2 hour or so, and that was with commentary and talking to the next door neighbor. #2 was more interested in comparing the smells of the oils and seeing their relative colors than being under the hot engine, but still. My son is starting to WANT to help me work on my cars! Woohoo!
Yes, before you ask, I did change the filter, with a Purolator Pure One that I had on hand already. The interval was just a hair over 6,000 miles.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Okay, so if the glowbe is warmening, what's up with this?
Via Watts Up With That?
T3h Meteorological Institute says: "In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice"
You know it's after July, right? So how come you're all frozen over? Don't you know the global is warming? You are supposed to be all MELTY!!!!1!!!
Okay, that's just some pundit looking at random satellite imagery from NASA, and quoting some foreign language source that proves his point beyond all doubt... how about some stuff from a Real Scientist, you say?
Okay, how about Walter Cunningham? (who?) in Launch Magazine, He says: "There are excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and the Earth’s temperature, while scientists cannot find a relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and global temperatures. But global warming is an issue no longer being decided in the scientific arena."
and in case you forgot, "After warnings that 2007 would be the hottest year on record and a record year for hurricanes, what we experienced was the coolest year since 2001 and, by some measures, the most benign hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere in three decades."
And for those who are counting, have a peek at the current level of sunspot activity. If you are wondering what that's about, you might google up the little ice age a few hundred years ago... you know, the last time there were so few sunspots between solar cycles. Just sayin', that's all.
Go. Read. Is question the paradigm too complex a phrase for the government-educated?
T3h Meteorological Institute says: "In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice"
You know it's after July, right? So how come you're all frozen over? Don't you know the global is warming? You are supposed to be all MELTY!!!!1!!!
Okay, that's just some pundit looking at random satellite imagery from NASA, and quoting some foreign language source that proves his point beyond all doubt... how about some stuff from a Real Scientist, you say?
Okay, how about Walter Cunningham? (who?) in Launch Magazine, He says: "There are excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and the Earth’s temperature, while scientists cannot find a relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and global temperatures. But global warming is an issue no longer being decided in the scientific arena."
and in case you forgot, "After warnings that 2007 would be the hottest year on record and a record year for hurricanes, what we experienced was the coolest year since 2001 and, by some measures, the most benign hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere in three decades."
And for those who are counting, have a peek at the current level of sunspot activity. If you are wondering what that's about, you might google up the little ice age a few hundred years ago... you know, the last time there were so few sunspots between solar cycles. Just sayin', that's all.
Go. Read. Is question the paradigm too complex a phrase for the government-educated?
Friday, August 1, 2008
He Wouldn't Comply, So We Tasered Him!
19 times. As he lay there with a broken back.
There are 2 sides to every story, but this one is looking pretty bad for the police.
That is all.
There are 2 sides to every story, but this one is looking pretty bad for the police.
That is all.
This Man is Obviously a Liar.
... because you can't convert from islam to Christianity. You just can't. Because they said so, that's why. Freedom of conscience? Who needs it?
Of course, if it's the son of a prominent moslem terrorist, it's even more unpossible. his brother said so. This is the same reason the islamist world likes Obama: since his daddy was a muslim, he is too, regardless of what he might have said or done for the last couple of decades. Because that's the rules.
If you haven't yet, go read the book Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn. Stock up on the nausea medication first though.
Of course, if it's the son of a prominent moslem terrorist, it's even more unpossible. his brother said so. This is the same reason the islamist world likes Obama: since his daddy was a muslim, he is too, regardless of what he might have said or done for the last couple of decades. Because that's the rules.
If you haven't yet, go read the book Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn. Stock up on the nausea medication first though.
Peaceful Islamists Say: Prayer = War
So the ever peaceful adherents to the peaceful Religion of Peace say that going to a place that was a Jewish and Christian holy site before Mohammed made up his religion o' booty and booty for Mohammed, and praying to the God who (used to) put his name there, constitutes an intent to wage religious war. Sure. Why not? That way, you can just pick them off from a nearby rooftop whenever you feel like it, and get your oh-so-religious jihad fix out of the way for another day.
Yep, it sure was a good idea to share Jerusalem w/ the Muslims alright.
Oh, and don't try to bother them with pesky facts, either (read the 2nd half of the article).
The average muslim has probably never read her koran, much less a thousand-page commentary that covers it, as well as the sunna and hadith. I have. Faithful Muslims should, too.
... you know, so they would either go killing like muhammad said, or convert to another, less made-up religion.
Yep, it sure was a good idea to share Jerusalem w/ the Muslims alright.
Oh, and don't try to bother them with pesky facts, either (read the 2nd half of the article).
The average muslim has probably never read her koran, much less a thousand-page commentary that covers it, as well as the sunna and hadith. I have. Faithful Muslims should, too.
... you know, so they would either go killing like muhammad said, or convert to another, less made-up religion.
Oh, That IS Convenient!
From BBC News:
Zimbabwe has (again) dropped a few zeros from its currency. It still takes a full days' allowed bank withdrawals (in the Trillions of dollars) to buy a single bus fare, but at least you don't have to count so many zeros when you write out a check.
Good one Mugabe. That's really going to help. I am beginning to be more and more surprised that nobody has given him his 9 grams yet.
Zimbabwe has (again) dropped a few zeros from its currency. It still takes a full days' allowed bank withdrawals (in the Trillions of dollars) to buy a single bus fare, but at least you don't have to count so many zeros when you write out a check.
Good one Mugabe. That's really going to help. I am beginning to be more and more surprised that nobody has given him his 9 grams yet.
My High Standard:
I have a high standard. My expectations of you are perhaps unreasonably high. I expect that you will do what you can do, when you should, as well as you should. I try not to be too hard on you when you fail to meet that standard. If you need help, and don't ask, you likely will not get it. If you need help, and ask, you will likely get it. If you *want* help, and I know you can do it, and it is safe and painless for you to do it (even if it takes longer) I will let you do it by yourself, perhaps with constructive commentary from the sidelines. I will try to avoid letting someone get hurt doing what they obviously cannot.
For my family, this manifests itself sometimes in a percieved inability to please me. Mostly this is because I am constantly tired, busy, and occasionally grumpy. I want my children to be well-behaved, and my wife tolerably pleasant. The dishes can wait, and I won't kill anybody if the laundry sits one more day, especially if they go out to do something fun/educational, or are feeling tired.
How this relates to me:
I expect the best out of myself, for something I care about. Generally -thank God- I am competent enough at everything I have
to do, that I don't care about, that I can be unmotivated and half-ass it and do work that is satisfactory to the assigner thereof. If I care about something, I will probably take excessively long to do it, but it will be done well. The triggers on a couple of my personal firearms are fine examples of this.
How this relates to you:
If you tell me you will be there, I should be able to expect you to show up.
If you tell me you will do it, I should be able to bank on it being done
If you tell me you can do it, I should be able to leave it to you.
Unless you strike me as not worthy of such esteem, you will be trusted to do what you are assigned, the first time. If you don't git 'er done, there may not be a second time, or there may be a supervised period until you are trusted to do it alone again.
If you let me down because of ignorance, that is irritating, but forgivable. Expect to have your ignorace eliminated to the best of my ability. I will try not to be grumpy that you have failed, especially after the first minute or two after you tell me you did.
If you let me down because of incompetence, I will try to train you if it can be done reasonably quickly. If not, expect not to have that task again assigned to you
If you let me down because of laziness, I will be disappointed and you may have just lost a billet.
If you let me down because you are a worthless sack of [deleted] for any of a thousand reasons, you are fired, and I may be mad at you for a minute. I will very likely not loose my cool at you. After you leave and the door closes I will likely still keep my cool.
If you come at me with malice, and act towards me out of spite, feel free to anticipate anything up to and including cold, calculated violence directed at you. This may not be physical. You might lose a billet and never trace it to me. You will be very hard-pressed to get me to loose my cool even in this case. Genuine Anger is something (you may have seen a pattern developing) that I don't express very often.
If you come after my family, God help you.
That is all.
For my family, this manifests itself sometimes in a percieved inability to please me. Mostly this is because I am constantly tired, busy, and occasionally grumpy. I want my children to be well-behaved, and my wife tolerably pleasant. The dishes can wait, and I won't kill anybody if the laundry sits one more day, especially if they go out to do something fun/educational, or are feeling tired.
How this relates to me:
I expect the best out of myself, for something I care about. Generally -thank God- I am competent enough at everything I have
to do, that I don't care about, that I can be unmotivated and half-ass it and do work that is satisfactory to the assigner thereof. If I care about something, I will probably take excessively long to do it, but it will be done well. The triggers on a couple of my personal firearms are fine examples of this.
How this relates to you:
If you tell me you will be there, I should be able to expect you to show up.
If you tell me you will do it, I should be able to bank on it being done
If you tell me you can do it, I should be able to leave it to you.
Unless you strike me as not worthy of such esteem, you will be trusted to do what you are assigned, the first time. If you don't git 'er done, there may not be a second time, or there may be a supervised period until you are trusted to do it alone again.
If you let me down because of ignorance, that is irritating, but forgivable. Expect to have your ignorace eliminated to the best of my ability. I will try not to be grumpy that you have failed, especially after the first minute or two after you tell me you did.
If you let me down because of incompetence, I will try to train you if it can be done reasonably quickly. If not, expect not to have that task again assigned to you
If you let me down because of laziness, I will be disappointed and you may have just lost a billet.
If you let me down because you are a worthless sack of [deleted] for any of a thousand reasons, you are fired, and I may be mad at you for a minute. I will very likely not loose my cool at you. After you leave and the door closes I will likely still keep my cool.
If you come at me with malice, and act towards me out of spite, feel free to anticipate anything up to and including cold, calculated violence directed at you. This may not be physical. You might lose a billet and never trace it to me. You will be very hard-pressed to get me to loose my cool even in this case. Genuine Anger is something (you may have seen a pattern developing) that I don't express very often.
If you come after my family, God help you.
That is all.
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